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" For a group of friends or a family dinner, fish tacos are popular and fun to make. "
Tom Douglas
Family
Fish
Friends
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" It's always a good idea to chill your crab cake mixture for a few hours, or even overnight, before frying because they'll hold together better. "
Tom Douglas
Cake
Chill
Together
" How can anyone live off of minimum wage? "
Tom Douglas
How
Live
Wage
" I love being able to help promote Seattle to travelers worldwide. "
Tom Douglas
Love
Seattle
Able
" Some versions of crab cakes are mostly crabmeat lightly bound with egg, but I'm a firm believer that a crab cake should contain bread crumbs. "
Tom Douglas
Egg
Bread
Cake
" Disappointing cakes have often been sitting out too long. They should last just long enough to have the last pieces the next morning with coffee - who doesn't love cake with coffee? "
Tom Douglas
Coffee
Cake
Last
" Most of the catfish you find at the fish counter has been farmed. Though I usually prefer to buy and eat wild fish, farmed catfish taste cleaner, without the muddy taste of their wild relatives. "
Tom Douglas
You
Taste
Fish
" Pork is my friend. "
Tom Douglas
Pork
Friend
My Friend
" I don't have any interest in being a chef without being on the business side of things, or vice versa, because if you don't make money at the end of the month, you're going out of business. "
Tom Douglas
End
You
Month
" It's really fun to have a convection oven, even it if it's a little convection toaster oven. It really changes the way you bake. "
Tom Douglas
Changes
You
Way
" Over the years I've tweaked my stuffing recipe many times, adding a variety of ingredients like sauteed wild mushrooms, dried cherries, fresh chevre, toasted hazelnuts, chopped ham hock meat, and other taste treats. "
Tom Douglas
Taste
Meat
Wild
" I'm just sick of food going in the garbage. "
Tom Douglas
Garbage
Just
Going
" I use ginger like garlic. I love it for steaming fish and making barbecue sauces or roasted chicken. "
Tom Douglas
Fish
Barbecue
Love
" Often we eat squid fried, so it's fun to grill it for a change. To grill squid, slice the cleaned bodies open into two flat pieces and thread them, along with the tentacles, onto skewers, then grill quickly over a direct fire with the coals as close as possible to the grate, turning the squid several times. "
Tom Douglas
Eat
Fire
Fun
" The classic Italian green sauce, salsa verde, is easy to make and especially nice in the spring when bunches of fresh herbs start appearing in the farmers market or in your garden. "
Tom Douglas
Easy
Garden
Green
" Every cook I knows loves to make pizza. "
Tom Douglas
Knows
Pizza
Make
" Sometimes managers are a little shy to criticize another manager or another operation. "
Tom Douglas
Sometimes
Shy
Manager
" While it's typical to find steamed clam recipes which include a bit of bacon or sausage, you might not think of adding shredded ham hock, but it's another way to pair the lusty, smoky flavor of animal fat with the briny ocean flavor of shellfish. "
Tom Douglas
Find
Animal
You
" When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float them on top of each bowl. "
Tom Douglas
Top
Soup
Tomato
" Summer in Seattle allows me to indulge in some of the region's top culinary delights - I'm talking about wild king salmon and fresh, ripe Washington stone fruits and berries like cherries, peaches, plums, and blueberries. "
Tom Douglas
King
Wild
Me
" I particularly like to make crunchy slices of garlic bread to serve with steamed clams. "
Tom Douglas
Serve
Bread
Garlic
" One-pot meals make a lot of sense... because so much of what people hate about cooking is really the cleanup, the mess, the grease. "
Tom Douglas
Much
People
Sense
" There's something majestic about a 30-pound Chinook salmon roasted and served whole - people get excited when you present it with the head and tail on. It has beautifully browned skin and extraordinary bright red flesh when you cut into it. "
Tom Douglas
People
Red
Skin
" I want to do the basic things, like putting my daughter to bed. It's the sweetest thing. "
Tom Douglas
Basic
Daughter
Want
" When I wrote my cookbook, 'I Love Crab Cakes,' I asked some of my best chef buddies to contribute recipes. "
Tom Douglas
Chef
Recipes
Buddies
" I can't believe how many people don't have time to cook but have time to watch football and 'The Voice.' They're certainly making a choice. "
Tom Douglas
Time
Voice
Believe
" I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school. "
Tom Douglas
High
School
University
" Support a small chef. Not these big chains... but support the people who are out there trying to do things right and working hard to do that. "
Tom Douglas
People
Support
Trying
" Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor. "
Tom Douglas
Flavor
Texture
Nice
" Every time you make a fruit crisp for me, you are my favorite person in the world. It's something delicious and warm, right out of the oven. I mean, what more could anyone want? And all you're doing is taking the best fruit of the season, putting a crumb topping on it and putting it in the oven. "
Tom Douglas
Me
Best
You
" I crave my mom's Sloppy Joes. "
Tom Douglas
Mom
Crave
Sloppy